On 3/12/14, 4:27 PM, "fantasai" <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote:
>On 03/12/2014 11:22 AM, Chris Lilley wrote:
>>
>> That depends. Tell we what happens in vertical text. Breadth is
>> unlikely to work there since it implies a horizontal measurement.
>> Length would work for both inline and block in both horizontal and
>> vertical writing modes, I think.
>
>I think we veered away from length (one early proposal was
>"length/breadth"
>with breadth being the inline dimension) because it's confusable with
><length>.
By itself, I agree length would be confusing. I don’t find it confusing as
part of inline-length and block-length.